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Fall 2010 CS Schedule Information
(Posted on 17 May 2010)

The Fall Schedule of Computer Science courses, including descriptions of special and unusual courses, is now posted at http://www.cs.sjsu.edu/class_schedule/Schedule.html. Please note that part-time faculty assignments have not yet been added to this schedule, due to budget uncertainties. Keep checking the schedule during the summer for possible changes.

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Student Advising Holds
(Posted on 13 May 2010)

CS Students: please do not forget to see your advisor to remove your advising holds in preparation for Fall registration in June! Please do this before faculty leave for the summer break! If you need further information, please see the detailed posting from last semester.

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Summer 2010 CS Classes
(Posted on 10 May 2010)

Three courses have been scheduled by the CS Dept: CS 46A, CS 147, and CS 149. All three are currently under-enrolled and in danger of cancellation. Please consider signing up for these classes within the next week, or they will be canceled. The details are as follows:

• CS 46A 01 30232 Intro to Progrmng
  Bldg: MH Room: 225 Days: TuWTh Time: 09:00 - 10:50
  Instructor: Martin,Johnny G
  Dates: 06/07/2010 -08/12/2010
  
• CS 147 01 30233 Comp Architecture
  Bldg: MH Room: 422 Days: MW Time: 09:00 - 11:10
  Instructor: Teoh,Soon Tee
  Dates: 06/07/2010 -08/12/2010
  
• CS 149 01 30234 Operating Systems
  Bldg: MH Room: 225 Days: TuTh Time: 11:00 - 01:00
  Instructor: Martin,Johnny G
  Dates: 06/07/2010 -08/12/2010
  

Sign up is via the web at http://summer.sjsu.edu/register.

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Software Engineering Major Advising
(Posted on 2 February 2010)

The BSSE advisor Dr. Jon Pearce will have the following weekly office hour for Spring 2010: Wednesdays from 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm in 213 MacQuarrie Hall

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University and Faculty Furlough Days
(Posted on 2 February 2010)

Please be reminded of the remaining furlough and office closure days for the Spring, 2010 semester:

• The entire SJSU campus will be closed on the following days -- there will be no classes, and all offices will be closed: Monday, February 15 (Presidents' Day) and Friday, February 26.
• All SJSU offices will be closed on the following days (but there may be classes, depending on individual faculty furlough days): Friday, March 12, Friday, March 26, Thursday, April 1 (during Spring Break, so no classes), Friday, April 9, Friday, May 7, and Tuesday, May 18 (Study/Conference Day, so no classes).
• Individual faculty have additional personal furlough days; any classes taught by each faculty member will be canceled on these days. Here are the additional personal furlough days for CS faculty.

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Undergraduate CS Advising
(Posted on 1 February 2010)

Walk-in advising hours and the advising & probation workshop schedules have all been posted on the web site of the CS Staff Advisor Rocio Avila.

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New Section of CS 46A (Introduction to Programming)
(Posted on 1 February 2010)

Due to heavy demand, a third section of CS 46A will be opened for Spring, 2010. It will meet MW from 1430-1620 in MH 311. The first meeting will be on Wednesday, Feb. 3. The class code and add codes will be available at that time.

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CS Tutoring Now Available
(Posted on 1 February 2010)

Tutors for many important CS courses are now available for students in the CS Club Study Room (MH 226). Please see the flyer for hours and more information.

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New Section of CS 255 (Algorithms)
(Posted on 8 December 2009)

Due to heavy demand, a second section of CS 255 has been opened for Spring, 2010:

29574 CS 255 02 DES ANAL COMP ALGO 3 1600 1715 TR MH 222 Smith

If you are on the waiting list for section 1, please consider signing up for this new section. (As a consequence of this change, the section of CS 155 has had to be canceled for Spring, 2010.)

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Automatic Prerequisite Checking in Undergraduate CS Classes
(Posted on 8 December 2009)

Students: please be aware that MySJSU is checking prerequisites automatically for many upper division CS courses. This should not be a problem unless you have taken upper division CS courses at a university other than SJSU. In case you are not able to register for an upper division course because of an unsatisfied prerequisite, and you believe that you do in fact satisfy the prerequisite, please contact the instructor in person or by email. If the instructor is also satisfied that you meet the prerequisite, then the instructor can allow you to register for the course by giving you an add code. (In cases where the instructor cannot be contacted, please contact the Dept. chair.) Please also note that, if you gain access to a course through this method, and you are later determined not to have the prerequisite, then you could be dropped from the course as well as face other penalties depending on your situation.

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Admission and Impaction Information
(Posted on 2 December 2009)

Undergraduation applications to SJSU for Fall, 2010 are now closed! Graduate applications will continue to be accepted for the MSCS until March 1, 2010. See the Graduate Admissions and Program Evaluations web site for further details.

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Spring 2010 Schedule and Advanced Registration Information
(Posted on 19 November 2009)

Information on courses being offered by the CS Department for Spring, 2010 has now been posted at http://www.cs.sjsu.edu/class_schedule/Schedule.html, including information on special courses. In particular, the following special topics courses are being offered:

• CS 185C, Section 1: Fundamentals of IBM DB2 for z/OS. Prerequisite: CS 146. Class code: 23339. Scheduled time/place/instructor: TR 1730-1845 MH 422 C POLLETT.
• CS 185C, Section 2: Application Development with IBM DB2 for z/OS Prerequisite: CS 146. Class code: 25382. Scheduled time/place/instructor: TR 1900-2015 MH 422 F BUTT.

More information can be found at the above link. See also this poster. Please note the following additional information about advanced registration for Spring, 2010:

• Advanced Registration is currently underway through Sunday, January 17.
• All undergraduates and graduate students will have a unit load limit of 14 units, except students who have applied for graduation for Spring 2010 or Summer 2010, who will have a unit limit of 18 units.
• Students will be able to add classes up to a unit load limit of 18 units after classes begin (21 units with special permission).

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Student Teams Excel at ACM Programming Contest
(Posted on 10 November 2009)

Two teams of students from SJSU competed with 75 other teams at the the 2009 Pacific Northwest Regional Contest of the ACM-ICPC programming contest on Saturday November 7. The Spartan Blue team placed 14th in a very strong field, just behind Stanford and Berkeley among Northern California schools and ahead of all other CSU teams. A second team, Spartan Gold, placed a very respectable 43rd. The Association for Computing Machinery's Intercollegiate Programming Contest has been called the Battle of the Brains, and, at the top levels, brings collegiate programmers from 6 continents for an international competition. Members of the SJSU teams can be seen in the adjoining photo, from left to right: Colin Blower (Gold), Alex Kerr (Gold), Kristopher Windsor (Blue), Vlad Dimitriu (Blue), Victor Frandsen (Gold), David Alves (Blue). See the overall standings and the extracted Northern California standings, as well as some additional photos. Congratulations and thanks to our great teams!!

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IBM Continues Cash Donations to Support CS Education in Enterprise Database Systems
(Posted on 30 October 2009)

IBM continues to support the Computer Science Department in its development of an Enterprise Database Certificate Program focusing on IBM's DB2 and large-scale computing systems running z/OS. So far $105,000 has been donated, with a final $35,000 coming in Spring, 2010. These donations allow the Computer Science Department to continue offering several DB2 special topics courses as well as continue to train faculty and finalize the development of a certificate program, despite severe budget cuts and impaction. Thank you, IBM!

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Enrollment and Mandatory Advising Information
(Posted on 28 October 2009)

All students majoring in Computer Science - both Masters and Bachelors students - have had advising holds placed on their records. This means that, if you are a BSCS or MSCS student, you will not be able to register for classes unless you have seen your advisor and had your advising hold removed. Please see your advisor as soon as possible - failing to do so may delay your ability to register! In order to remove your hold, you must print a copy of your unofficial transcript and fill out the appropriate form before seeing your advisor:

• The form for undergraduates (BSCS): http://www.cs.sjsu.edu/~ravila/Forms/MajorAdvisingReleaseForm_Oct2008.pdf
• The form for graduate students (MSCS): http://www.cs.sjsu.edu/mscs/docs/advising.pdf

If you do not know who your advisor is, please consult the undergraduate advising page if you are a BSCS student, or the list of advisors if you are an MSCS student.

Please also be aware that many new restrictions and procedures have been put in place on undergraduate students as a consequence of enrollment caps. Many of these can be found on various pages linked from the Advising Hub web site. In particular, undergraduates now often will have to submit forms and deal with Academic Advising and Retention Services (AARS) rather than the Registrar's Office (AARS is also in the Student Services Center). Undergraduates with high numbers of units (cumulative - 120+ now, 90+ in the Spring) may have special requirements, including extra holds, placed on their records. If you are a BSCS student with 90 or more cumulative units, you are strongly advised to submit a major form and a graduation form as part of your advising and registration steps. (BSCS students in some categories will be required to do so.)

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Game Development Club
(Posted on 20 October 2009)

The SJSU Game Development Club, a sister organization to the CS Club, began last year and has already grown tremendously. If you are a student and interested in Computer Games, please consider joining! See the web site for more details.

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Google Donates Androids
(Posted on 24 July 2009)

Google has made a generous donation of 20 Android mobile phones for use by students and faculty of the Computer Science Department. The gift has a retail value of $7,580. The phones will be put to use in Professor Chris Pollett's Cell Phone Programming course (CS 185C, Section 3) during the Fall, 2009 semester, and in subsequent courses in future semesters. The Department would like to thank Chris DiBona, Google's Open Source Programs Manager, for facilitating this gift.

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CS Department Job Listing Site Moves
(Posted on 8 June 2009)

The job listing site for the CS Department has moved to a new location: http://jobs.cs-sjsu.org/. Employers and students should consult that site for current postings. (Note that the SJSU Career Center also maintains a job listing site.)

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Intel Donates Dual-Core Laptops for Parallel Processing
(Posted on 23 March 2009)

Professor Robert Chun, with the assistance of Professor Teng Moh, has received an equipment grant of 25 Dell Latitude D830 Dual Core 2 Laptop computers from Intel to support student and faculty training in the development of multicore parallel processing techniques. These laptops will be used in Professor Chun's classes beginning next fall, and in future parallel processing classes. This equipment has a retail value of $44,700. Special thanks to Intel, and kudos to Professor Chun!

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MESA Day, Robocode, and the CS Club
(Posted on 16 March 2009)

On Saturday, March 7, members of the CS Club conducted "sponge activity" learning sessions for middle/high school students participating in the annual Math Engineering Science Achievement Day activities. Specifically, the Club introduced attendees to Robocode - a programming system where virtual robot tanks compete. According to Rance Bobo, Counseling Coordinator for Mesa at SJSU, the sessions were among the favorite activities as reported by the students. In the picture at right are (from left) Alex Tsui, Cheuk Wong, David Alves (CS Club President and a Robocode expert), Tom Turney, Glenn Jahnke, Bernard Mesa, and Victor Frandsen.